Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Sympathy Isn'T Quite Empathy

To affirm and promote acceptance
of one another
and all together one
is to also affirm and promote
growing capacity for active empathy,
not settling for passive,
sometimes also ToughLove aggressive,
sympathy

The best possible outcome
being mere liberating tolerance--
which is still a big evolutionary step up
from conservative survivalist 
intolerance,

Which anyone
who is in any way
not BusinessAsUsual
LeftBrain dominant
StraightWhite patriarchal
can tell you,
at probable great anecdotal length
personal
political
economic 
cultural
education sadly replete
with unsystemic intolerance
of indigenously sacred 
Wisdom

That win/lose passive tolerance
is NOT active
democratically healthy
wealthy multicultural acceptance, 
an immensely positive moral
legal
spiritual
natural polycultural 
deep immersion value

Omnipotently integral potential knowledge
of why eco-political empowerment
and enlightening wisdom
are more than mere personal win/lose tolerance

LeftBrain dominantly verbalized
capitalized
fathered YangPower
against EarthMothering YintegraLight

Of HerStoric wise-felt feeling
knowledge 
co-investing in empathic Wisdom

To affirm and promote acceptance
of one another
and all together one.

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